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Tag line, tag line Provisioning Manager 4. 0 Customer Strategic Presentation March 2010

Agenda ¡Overview ¡Admin challenges and solutions ¡Business challenges and solutions ¡What’s new in 4. 0? ¡Features added in 3. 8 ¡Features and benefits © 2009 Net. App. All rights reserved. 2

Provisioning Manager Overview WHAT IS IT? WHAT DOES IT DO? ¡ Centralized, policy-based storage provisioning for Net. App® SAN and NAS environments ¡ Establishes provisioning policies to manage provisioning and exporting of storage ¡ Automatically provisions a data set when assigned a provisioning policy ¡ Checks provisioned storage for policy conformance ¡ Manual controls for adding volumes or qtrees to a data set on existing and newly provisioned storage ¡ Manual controls for resizing volumes & deleting old Snapshot™ copies on existing & newly provisioned storage ¡ Provides Storage services that enables a Service catalogue © 2009 Net. App. All rights reserved. 3

Challenges Administrator Challenges § Manual storage provisioning is time consuming, error prone, and complex § How do I manage my capacity to avoid out-of-space alerts? § How do I optimize my storage utilization and increase my storage efficiency? © 2009 Net. App. All rights reserved. 4

Solutions for Administrators ¡ Automated, centralized provisioning – Automate and control your provisioning tasks from a central console and improve productivity – Policy-driven provisioning enables you to standardize your storage delivery and meet your SLAs ¡ Improve your space management – Receive out-of-space alerts – Easily transition data to other storage systems with offline data migration ¡ Increase your storage efficiency – Use thin provisioning, deduplication, and resource pools to manage your storage capacity and increase your utilization © 2009 Net. App. All rights reserved. 5

Challenges Business Challenges ¡Productivity is declining ¡Unable to meet SLAs ¡Storage costs are rising © 2009 Net. App. All rights reserved. 6

Business Solutions ¡ Centralize and automate your Net. App storage provisioning and improve administrator productivity ® ¡ Meet your SLAs with standardized policies that deliver storage to meet your business requirements – Receive notifications and alerts to identify any capacity-related issues ¡ Contain costs with improved storage efficiency – Use resource pools to consolidate, resize, and provision storage as needed to address over-provisioned, growing, and underutilized storage and to contain costs – Enable deduplication and thin provisioning for space savings © 2009 Net. App. All rights reserved. 7

What’s new in Manger 4. 0? 4. 0 What’s in. Provisioning Manager • Online migration of datasets and v. Filers § Support for Net. App Data Motion § Non-disruptive migration of NFS and i. SCSI workloads • Storage services § Expose storage as a set of services to users § Provision storage with integrated v. Filer provisioning for multi-tenancy • Full 7 -mode support on ONTAP 8. 0 § Support for 64 -bit (large) aggregates § Ability to provision volumes > 16 TB §Space Management (covered under Protection Manager) § Space management of aggregates § Secondary volume migration © 2009 Net. App. All rights reserved.

Support for Net. App Data Motion ON ¡ Data Motion benefits ü No planned downtime for ü Improved SLA flexibility ü Application transparency ON 24/7 Storage Pool Data ¡ Provisioning Manager value add üGUI based workflows simplify an otherwise complex activity ü High degree of control over the migration process ü Optimized data transfers and network usage Net. App® Data Motion™ © 2009 Net. App. All rights reserved. 9

Service Catalog Model I need three 800 GB Oracle instances at the Gold service level Storage Service Catalog Provisioning Manager Application Admin Gold Silver Bronze ¡Protection policies ¡Provisioning policies ¡Resource pool ¡Chargeback metrics Change backup policy for Gold service level to twice a day Storage/Backup Admin © 2009 Net. App. All rights reserved.

What was added in Provisioning Manager 3. 8? ¡ Deduplication – Automation of deduplication for newly provisioned storage – Deduplication on demand – Space breakout and reports showing deduplication savings ¡ Data migration for space management ¡ Enhanced thin provisioning for NFS data sets – Includes volume auto-grow and auto-delete of Snapshot™ copies ¡ Enhanced v. Filer™ setup ¡ Manual resource selection while provisioning ¡ Enhanced V-Series support ¡ User-selectable naming convention in policy ¡ IPv 6 qualification © 2009 Net. App. All rights reserved. 11

Features added in 3. 8 Feature What Does It Do? Deduplication support § Track your Net. App® deduplication storage savings § Select how you want to enable deduplication: schedule, on demand, etc. Offline data migration § Automated offline migration of data sets and v. Filer™ units Enhanced thin provisioning for NFS data sets § Ability to commit storage beyond the provisioned capacity v. Filer (Multi. Store®) enhanced support § Support for VLANs § Cluster-aware v. Filer setup © 2009 Net. App. All rights reserved. 12

Provisioning Manager Benefits Overview ¡Automated policy-based management – Eliminates time-consuming and error-prone manual provisioning processes – Reduces administrator burden ¡Standardize the delivery of storage and consistently meet SLAs ¡Increase storage utilization and flexibility ¡Improve storage efficiency © 2009 Net. App. All rights reserved. 13

Backup Slides © 2009 Net. App. All rights reserved. 14

Deduplication ¡ Deduplication space break-out information © 2009 Net. App. All rights reserved. 15

Offline Data Migration 2. Resume source volumes on target 1. Start migration © 2009 Net. App. All rights reserved. 3. Reclaim space by deleting source volumes 16

Space Management Update values to resize volumes Drag the bar to resize volume © 2009 Net. App. All rights reserved. 17

Provisioning Request Options Resource selection options © 2009 Net. App. All rights reserved. 18

Provisioning Manager and Protection Manager Share the Same Console Filter jobs for provisioning © 2009 Net. App. All rights reserved. 19

Tag line, tag line Thank You © Copyright 2009 Net. App, Inc. All rights reserved. No portions of this document may be reproduced without prior written consent of Net. App, Inc. Specifications are subject to change without notice. Net. App, the Net. App logo, Go further, faster, Multi. Store, Snapshot, and v. Filer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Net. App, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.